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Bombs kill at least seven in Baghdad


    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombers staged a series of attacks across Baghdad on Monday, mainly targeting Iraqi security forces, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 30, police said.

    A bomb attached to a car, followed quickly by another blast, killed three people and wounded 10 in the New Baghdad district in the east of the capital, police said.

    A roadside bomb in the Yarmouk neighbourhood struck an Iraqi army lorry carrying ammunition. Three soldiers were burnt to death inside the truck and four civilians were wounded.

    Near Sha'ab stadium in eastern Baghdad a bomb struck a police patrol, wounding seven people including three policemen. In Ghazaliya district in western Baghdad a roadside bomb struck a police patrol wounding three policemen and a civilian.

    A roadside bomb struck near a police patrol in the central Karrada district killing one civilian and wounding four policemen, and another roadside bomb in central Baghdad wounded four people.

    Iraq has become far less violent over the past 18 months, but militants still launch bomb attacks frequently targeting Iraqi civilians or the security forces.

    (Editing by Elizabeth Piper)